Recent content by Beargfr

Results: After running for 2 days on a 40,100 gallon pool, CH is down by 20 points. It works.

Ok, let me say first of all that it was never my intention to rile people up, start arguments, be insulting - none of that. I apologize for any of it that I may have contributed to. Next, through a series of private conversations with Leebo (thanks so much). I've finally gotten some...

Our well water down stream from the softener (which means every point on the property except at the well head itself) has a CH level of 0, at least according to the test in my Taylor kit (which I now trust to be correct) and that includes the autofill. I'm sure I wrecked my CH by using Cal...

Thank you!! That was actually helpful, and I'm fine with that. I won't need the softener to last 5-10 years, or even as long as 1. I only need it to work long enough to get to my target CH, whatever I decide that is. I also know how to replace resin beads in a softener and where to get them...

I'm not ON city water. I'm on well water - the same water source as the pool. I guess I didn't make it clear that the times I'd seen heavy OTO reactions to city tap water was many years ago when I was much younger and did live in the city - and sold those charcoal filters you mentioned. We...

Looks like this forum may not be the place for me. I was hoping to find answers and understanding backed by logical explanations of the "why" behind the suggestions, enough to make sense to me. I've never been someone who will "just take someone's word" for anything. It has to make sense...

Yeah well, real world experience from someone I trust says otherwise. He's actually done it and seen it work. If chlorine actually destroys the resin beads, then why do these units work on city water supplies that also contain enough chlorine in them to turn Orthotolidine (OTO) bright yellow?

Talking yesterday with my construction manager who ran our project last year, he gave me another ingenious way to lower CH without having to replace water. Use a small self contained water softener with the inlet connected to the hose bib that's already present near the pump, after the filter...

Well of course it is. After all it comes from your site. I on the other hand don't have any particular allegiance to any one source or set of sources. I'm not saying that one is any better or more reliable than the other - yet. I'm still pretty new at this and still learning. I have this...

Probably somewhere into the 200's, according to recommended ranges I've seen "all over the place". That's even what the builder recommended. My test kit has a circular slide rule that will also tell me CSI. I confess I haven't been using it as often as I probably should. I'll change that...

The only reason I have, is that during a conversation with our construction manager back just after the pool was completed (and I knew almost nothing about keeping it balanced), he told me about how he used to manage very large commercial pools and said that he liked to keep TA high because it...

CH got out of hand for two reasons, the main one being that I didn't know any better and had been using Cal Hypo granules exclusively whenever tests showed some was needed. I've been doing that ever since the pool came online in March of 2021. Now that I know, I'll be using 12.5% liquid...

I've never once had cloudy water or any algae, and I generally keep my FC levels around 5 or more. The only reason they tested at 2 yesterday was because I had just finished replacing what I'm guessing was about 1/4 to 1/3 of the total pool water and had not rebalanced it yet. I've only...

Addendum, I did just now try to add all my pool info to my signature, but it was rejected for being too long. I'm out of time right now - back later